Tag: diet

If you did not know yet, I am a subscriber to the notion that insulin is the root cause of lifestyle disease. Or rather, insulin resistance. Insulin – isn’t that something they give to diabetics? The man in the street might well know nothing more than this. The fact is that we all have (and need) insulin in our bodies to survive.

The problems start when you don’t have any or you have too much. Having none is a condition known as diabetes myelitis, or T1D. In this case, your pancreas stops producing insulin and you die. You waste away. Unless you get insulin from other sources as medicine injecting into your body. It stops your muscles withering. It requires the monitoring of blood glucose levels to be able to regulate the insulin dose.

The cause of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is by one of two conditions. The pancreas cannot produce enough insulin to maintain control of blood glucose. The second is where the pancreas produces enough insulin to control glucose in the blood. The resulting high concentration causes diseases – lifestyle diseases.

I still eat some carbohydrates: leafy greens, berries. Other fruits and vegetables that have a lot of fiber. 100 grams max. per day. I enjoy my food.

I was born in 1953. That made me 62 at the time of writing. I do not want to be ill. I do not want to have to visit the doctor. I do not want to take medications. I want to live a full life with no restrictions. That is why I eat a low-carb diet. To keep my insulin levels at an optimal level that will stabilize my blood glucose levels.

It is that simple. Anyone can do it.

I want to enhance this, so I do other things. I follow a protocol. This protocol integrates nutrition, breathing, building immune resilience, structured movement and mindfulness.

I swim. I bike. I do yoga. I exercise 90 minutes every day. I expose my body to sunshine when I can, to get vitamin D. I am aware that I need to balance the oils (omega-3 vs. omega 6).

I take magnesium and zinc tablets and vitamin c tablets as required. I take magnesium to control the amount of calcium in my blood. Calcium in the arteries is a reliable biomarker of impending heart attacks. More so than cholesterol or LDL.

I weigh 71 kg. That is the same as I was when I was 22. I was 87 kg a year or so ago. People ask me if I am ill. I say “Why?” They say “Because you are so thin”, so I say “Are you ill?” and they say “Why?” and I say “Because you are not thin”.

I hope this is an inspiration for you. I wish I had read this 30 years ago. Never mind. I live one day at a time – to the full.

Have a look at this video. Dr. Malhotra explains in scientific detail while saturated fats aren’t bad. Then along comes a rather large dietist, who tells the audience that they should look at the evidence, not anecdotes.

Perhaps she should look at the evidence!

The Governments of the world are in deep pooh on this one. Why? Because faulty and misused research was used to dictate nutrition policies in the 1970’s, with absolutely catastrophic results – results that can be seen on every street – obesity and the resulting life-style diseases, such as diabetes 2, Alzheimer’s (or Diabetes 3 as it is becoming known as), coronary heart disease and auto-immune diseases.

This is costing our health services a fortune and could trigger their collapse. But a deeper problem lies in the fact that Governments are now reversing the advice they gave 45 years ago until recently; namely, that the population does not need to eat low-fat, high-carb diets. The Swedish are in the forefront, by turning the food pyramid upside down. The corporate lobby in the UK and US, has seen to it that the latest research results are watered down (and in some cases deliberately mis-intepreted).

However, another reason that they are slow to admit the mistake is that it undermines our whole system of government, because when the population wake up from the low-fat induced stupor, they will be angry, and into the bargain will find it hard to believe what Governments say on the subject now.

Let me recap, if you don’t know the story: As a result of the “7-nation study”, saturated fats were demonized and to counter the consumption of foods containing cholesterol, companies starting making “low-fat” foods, which conveniently have a longer shelf life and use the surplus corn production, in the guise of high-fructose corn syrup.

The result was that people started consuming huge amounts of sugar and carbohydrates (as well as polyunsaturated vegetable oils). The effect? insulin resistance, high serum insulin levels, and the inability for the fat (converted from the carbs) to be burnt off. The result? Well, just look around you!

I hope you are aware that there is a problem, but contrary to global warming and terrorism, you can do something about it yourself. Take responsibility. Don’t be a victim of the pharma holocaust.

Diet is not the only aspect of the way back to “normalization”. You need to work on several areas which are integrated. Misha Sakharoff’s Lifesaver course will bring you back to optimal health and perhaps save your life – hence the name- “Lifesaver”. Believe me, see the 50-week course through and you will realize just how bad things were before you started!

This is a graph of my weight loss. I have calculated precisely my daily calorific requirement. I know my shortfall. So I can calculate very precisely how to control the loss or gain almost daily. IMHO, anyone can do this, if they have a computer with a spreadsheet. IT AIN’T ROCKET SCIENCE.